OTTAWA — All eyes will be on New Democrats on Tuesday as they decide whether they will support the Conservatives’ motion to compel the prime minister’s chief of staff to testify on alleged Chinese interference in past elections.
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Why Doug Ford’s government spends more than $6B/year subsidizing hydro rates
When Premier Doug Ford’s government tables its new budget on Thursday, expect to see more than $6 billion devoted to subsidizing hydro bills.
Although previous Liberal governments also spent taxpayer money on lowering electricity prices, Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have taken it to such a level that it is now one of the single biggest line items in the Ontario budget.
The 2022-23 provincial budget earmarked $6.3 billion for “electricity cost-relief programs,” nearly four times as much as the $1.6 billion Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals budgeted for such programs in 2018.
Xi Jinping says China ready to ‘stand guard over world order’ on Moscow visit
Xi Jinping said China was ready with Russia “to stand guard over the world order based on international law” as he arrived for a state visit to Moscow that comes days after Vladimir Putin was made the subject of an arrest warrant by the international criminal court.
The Chinese leader is expected to position himself as a potential peacemaker in the Ukraine war during his two-day visit to Russia – his first state visit since Putin’s invasion. For his part, the Russian president will be hoping to project unity in the face of western isolation, as the US condemned Xi for providing “diplomatic cover” for Moscow to continue to commit further crimes in Ukraine.
#Ukraine: The first footage of a 🇫🇷 French Crotale NG short-range air-defense system in service with the Ukrainian army.
We can see two missiles fired in an attempt to take down a Russian cruise missile- the second one hits the target. pic.twitter.com/avdf9HBn5J
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 20, 2023
How We Know That ‘Woke’ Is Losing
Rather than change their tactics, progressives change the language — as they’ve done so many times before.
We find ourselves in the middle of an exhaustingly familiar spectacle in which the American Left and its allies in media pretend that a word with an all but universally understood definition is all of a sudden incomprehensible. Today, that word is “woke.”
The rise of the Z stars indoctrinating a new generation of Russians
She doesn’t have the flowing locks, soaring voice, or radiant smile of Vera Lynn. But for Russian “turbo-patriots” who cheer Putin’s war with Ukraine, there’s a modern forces’ sweetheart every bit as inspiring: Yulia Chicherina.
Her dark, short-cropped curls often encased in a black balaclava, her guitar strung over military fatigues, she performs her self-penned songs to troops in draughty halls in occupied Ukrainian towns and forest clearings behind the trenches.
Five Black men dressed as women complain about ‘cultural appropriation’
Progressives generally do not understand irony. The deeper the mental and emotional commitment to an ideology that defies nature and common sense, the less likely the individual is to have any self-awareness or appreciation of how ridiculous he or she or zi looks.
Two Decades Later, the War in Iraq Is Over—Right?
There’s no vital U.S. interest served by this indefinite advise-and-assist mission in the region.
Two decades ago, the war in Iraq began. The regime change mission was “accomplished” in a matter of weeks. Then, after that initial steroid high wore off, the limits of American military might started to show.
The U.S. occupation produced one tragic debacle after another. Public judgment of the war’s proponents moved from “convincing” to “mistaken” to “deceptive” to “deplorable.” Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, and millions more endured needless suffering. Baghdad did not emerge as a shining city on a hill. Once enthusiastic about the invasion, the American people first stopped delighting in the project and then, unless forced to attention by some discrete new horror like the rise of the Islamic State (IS) group, stopped looking at all.
A World War II Pilot Saved His Crew. It Took Almost 80 Years to Find His Remains.
The American pilot felt his aircraft wobble in the sky near the coast of West Sussex, England, where the beach gleamed below him, and the emerald meadow pastures lay ahead on June 22, 1944.
He and nine other crew members aboard a B-24 Liberator had just been jolted by a shell from a German antiaircraft gun that tore through the plane’s metal, forcing the pilot, First Lt. William B. Montgomery, into a dire situation as he tried to fly from Paris back to base camp in Britain.
Liberals float possibility of making motion on foreign interference a confidence vote
OTTAWA – Liberal House leader Mark Holland isn’t ruling out turning a Conservative motion on foreign interference into a confidence vote that could topple the government and would test the strength of the supply-and-confidence deal between the Liberals and the NDP.
The Conservatives tabled the motion in the House of Commons Monday demanding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, appear at the House ethics committee before the middle of April. They want her, along with more than a dozen other witnesses, to answer questions about allegations that the Chinese government interfered in Canada’s last two federal elections.
Sure they will.
The cultural revolution is devouring sport
From football to NASCAR, every sport is now a platform for relentless propaganda.
For the best part of two weeks, the spat between football pundit Gary Lineker and the BBC dominated the news agenda. Despite Lineker’s refusal to apologise for potentially breaching BBC impartiality rules in his attack on the government’s immigration policy, the BBC bent over backwards to keep him employed. Supported by other celebrity football commentators, Lineker demonstrated that he possessed far more cultural power than his employer. And so, to much acclaim from the woke elites, he has been reinstated as host of Match of the Day.
Portland stages a funeral for the death of face masks
Attendees will gather to mourn the end of ‘public health’
Today, at 4:30 Pacific Time, a group calling itself Mask Bloc will gather in the courthouse square in Portland, Oregon dressed in black, with masks, to mourn the official end of mask requirements in healthcare settings in Oregon.
Mask Bloc’s tweets are now protected, but the gathering invited protesters to “”Wear funeral black, wear your mask, bring signs” to lament “the end of infection control in OR”. It’s billed as a “funeral” for “public health”.
Far-Right politician ‘will burn the Koran’ in Wakefield after schoolboy received death threats
Muslim Council of Britain condemns ‘wanton act of incitement’ after Rasmus Paludan responds to incident at Kettlethorpe High School
A far-Right Danish politician is threatening to burn a Koran in Wakefield after a schoolboy received death threats when a copy of the holy book was dropped.
Rasmus Paludan, the extremist leader of Danish political party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), has become known for holding events where he burns copies of the Koran, some of which have led to violent counter-protests.
However, in his latest stunt, he published a video on Twitter announcing that he is planning to burn a copy of the Islamic holy book in Wakefield, West Yorkshire this week to coincide with Ramadan. He claims he is doing this to ensure “undemocratic forces” in the city “understand and respect democracy”.
There is nothing “extremist” about torching a Koran, the extremists are the ones trying to prevent you from doing so.
Crazy Person to take a ‘hard long look’ at Lunatic UN call to speed emissions reduction
Canada will take a ‘hard long look’ at UN call to speed emissions reduction: minister
OTTAWA – Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada will take a “hard long look” at a call from global climate scientists to hit its long-term greenhouse gas emissions targets 10 years earlier than planned.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the call in a new report Monday warning the world is teetering dangerously close to missing its critical targets to keep global warming in check.
The science all points to one incontrovertible fact: humanity continues to warm our planet to dangerous levels.
I thank @IPCC_CH contributors for their important work. We must continue to implement strong and bold climate policy. pic.twitter.com/tXUQxuJBwz— Steven Guilbeault (@s_guilbeault) March 20, 2023
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth assessment report on Monday.
The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.
Conservatives attempt to force top Trudeau aide to testify on Beijing interference
The Conservatives have put forward a motion in the House of Commons which would compel Katie Telford, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff, to testify before a House of Commons committee on the Chinese government’s efforts to interfere in Canadian elections.
The motion, moved by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, would order Telford to appear before the standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics no later than April 14, 2023 and to answer questions for three hours.
It says everything about the Liberal Party’s collusion with Communist China that Ms. Telford must be “forced” to spill her guilty guts.
Johnston’s appointment shows Liberals exist to prop up Laurentian elite
Canada’s close geographical and cultural proximity to the United States has some strange effects on our politics. One of the oddest is pushing the Liberal Party of Canada to wear the woke, anti-racist clothing of its American counterpart, the Democratic party. Yet at its core, the Liberal party exists to serve the interests of the country’s (uniformly white) Laurentian elite of western Quebec and southern Ontario. The party’s commitment to anti-racism is just an act put on for purely political purposes.